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Matona mia cara is a comic villanella by the Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso, also known as Orlande de Lassus, set for four voices. The text depicts a German landsknecht's clumsy courtship sung in deliberately broken Italian, with bawdy double meanings. The piece became widely popular across Europ...
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Vecchie letrose is a comic Italian vocal work by Adrian Willaert associated with the canzone villanesca tradition. Its text and musical character belong to the lighter, more humorous side of Renaissance secular song, contrasting with the serious and courtly madrigals also written by Willaert. The pi...
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